Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — UNION CITY MAN HANGS HIMSELF [ARTICLE]

UNION CITY MAN HANGS HIMSELF

IBen Raiser, a Barber, Ends Life in Old Fair Grounds. (BODY COVERED WITH FROST IWlfe and Two Children Survive Forty-Flve-Year-Old Suicide—Financial Difficulties Given as Cause. Union City.—Ben Raiser, fortyfive years old, a barber, committed suicide by hanging. The body ■was found hanging from a tree in the ■old fair grounds at the western edge •of Union City. The body was covered with frost. Financial difficulties are tiglven as a cause for the suicide. A widow and two children survive. Loot Divided in Indiana. Fort Wayne.—That the two robbers who dashed into the Homestead National bank, in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa., at noon September 17, held up customers and bank attaches and got away with SIO,OOO, divided their swag In the woods four miles east of Fort 'Wayne, has apparently been developed to a certainty. Mrs. Margaret Buffington, a detective attached to the Homestead police department, came to Fort Wayne seeking evidence corroborative of a confession which has been made by Joseph Kaufman, one of two men now held in Pittsburgh for the crime. The man’s story is to the effect that after the crime the robbers jumped into an automobile and headed for Chicago. They arrived at New Haven, five miles east of Fort Wayne, at night, according to the confession, where they drove their machine into a tree, wrecking it. They then divided the money and separated. The wrecked automobile, found some days after it had been abandoned, was towed into the City and has been in the custody of a justice court awaiting a claimant.

Two Men Kidnap Boy. Evansville.—The police reported that Homer, the eleven-year-old son of P. A. Poole, of this city, was kidnaped by two strange men, who bound and gaged him and placed him in a surrey and hauled him several miles from the city to a corn field. After the lad had been unbound, he managed to escape from the men and ran to a mile across a corn field with the men in hot pursuit, hut he reached the house of a farmer, who placed the boy on a traction ear and sent him to the city The lad’s story has been corroborated by the police, who are looking for the men who kidnaped him. . r .. A ii.t. Girl Rescued From Cistern. „ Anderson.—William Wells saved the life of Miss Sarah Martin, seventeen years old. when the young woman fell through the cover o'" a cistern and plunged into eight feet of water. Her mother saw her fall and called to the neighbor. Wells seized a clothes prop and went to the rescue of the young woman as she was sinking She grasped the prop and he pulled her from the cistern. The girl then fainted, and is yet in a critical condition Prisoner Saves Life of Sheriff. Hammond -Instead of Sheriff Y. E. White of Gran! county bringing E. E. Trowbridge of Marion county back from Francesville. La., on a forgery charge. Trowbridge brought White hack to Indiana. A short distance out of New Orleans after capturing White became deathly ill with ptomaine poisoning on the train. Trowbridge's unremitting attention on the way back to Indiana probably saved the sheriff's, life. Hog Cholera Causes Alarm. Goshen. —What was supposed to be foot-and-mouth disease among hogs on farms near Bristol, north of here, was found to be cholera. Many animals have died. Farmers, becoming alarmed, called County Agent Coffeen and Dr. W. J. Armour, deputy state veterinarian. Hog cholera is raging throughout Elkhart and Kosciousko counties, and the losses amount to thousands of dollars. Man on Foot Hunts Sister. Valparaiso.—Charles Turner of Indianapolis, en route on foot in a State-wide search for his sister, Mrs. fljarl Gruel, from whom he has been since childhood, arrived here and was directed to Hobart, where a family named Gruel was reported residing. Sentence Magazine Solicitor. Crawfordsville.—William Archley of Danville, 111., was sentenced hqre to one to seven years in prison on a plea of guilty to a charge qf obtaining maney. under false pretenses by means of a fake magazine offer. Train Victim Identified. Valparaiso.— The stranger killed at Kouts, this county, two weeks ago by a Pan Handle train, has been identified through papers as John Shoals of Warren.